I Don’t Want to Traumatise Children, but I Do Want to Be Truthful: A Conversation with Jacqueline Wilson
Jacqueline Wilson on letters, empathy, book bans.
PEN Transmissions
Articles
Who Has the Right to Be Grieved?
Susannah Dickey on the true crime media engine, Palestine, grief and the PEN Heaney Prize.
After the War Ends
Tetyana Teren on time in London with Victoria Amelina. Translated by Larissa Babij.
Past and Future Death and Art
AJ Layla on legacy and creative instinct.
Naomi Klein: An Encomium to Arundhati Roy and Alaa Abd el‑Fattah
Naomi Klein's PEN Pinter Prize 2024 encomium.
A Type Beat Under the Pressure Cooker: Reflecting On the First Anniversary of Art Not Evidence
Adèle Oliver on drill, resistance, and the Art Not Evidence campaign.
The Mud of Old Damascus Became My Mud: A Conversation with Issam Kourbaj
Issam Kourbaj on found art, the imagery of boats, and urgent archives.
Lina Attalah’s Speech for Alaa Abd el-Fattah, 2024 PEN Pinter Prize Writer of Courage
Lina Attalah's PEN Pinter Prize 2024 speech.
The Girls Are Playing with Fire: An Interview with Johanne Lykke Holm
Johanne Lykke Holm on gender, witches, and doppelgängers.
No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound that is Palestine: Arundhati Roy’s PEN Pinter Prize 2024 Speech
Arundhati Roy's PEN Pinter Prize 2024 speech.
Mostar’s Sniper Tower
Tayiba Sulaiman on memorialisation.
When I Walk in Gaza, I Put My Hands in My Pockets
Ahmad Bassiouny writes from Gaza. Translated by Ibrahim Fawzy.